Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070658.XAA39846@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200004070649.XAA00403@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 6, 2000 11:49:14 pm"
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> > > In message <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > > > : highly irritated at root's shell being one of poor UI. Of the [t]csh > > > : users I know, only about 10% use csh over tcsh and that is only because > > > : csh is in the base system. Those people would not even notice the extra > > > : tcsh features. > > > > Trust me I would notice the mis-features. Once installed tcsh 'cas I was > > told how great it was. Riped it out 4 hours later due to incompatibilities > > with these 40 year old, 20 year BSD csh trained fingers of mine would keep > > typing things that tcsh didn't like. > > > > It also would not grok my prompt env setting either... > > Substantiate or be disregarded. See other email to Warner, I've already stated I would install the tcsh port and give it a spin. We'll see how many minutes/hours/days it takes me before I toss it this time... (It will be tossed, even if it is 100% compatibile, it's got features I don't want to contaminate my extremly OS independent fingers with by using it too much...) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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